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ABB/A&P Repair Alliance
Marine turbocharging and servicing company ABB has entered into a non-exclusive alliance with A& P Southampton to provide enhanced ship repair and support services for vessels calling at the port.
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Fugro Acquires Thales Geosolutions
Thales and Fugro have finalised an agreement under which Fugro has acquired Thales Geosolutions for 147.5 million in cash. UK headquartered Thales Geosolutions , which has some 2,000 employees worldwide and forecasts revenues for this year above ? 200 million, is expected to complement Fugro insupplying the survey, positioning and ...
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European Commission Publishes Ships Blacklist
One year on from the Prestige disaster which devastated the coast of Spain, the European Commission has published the first list of ships which have been definitively banned from EU ports.
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Stiff Stuff for Shaking Sheerlegs
Netherlands based engineering company Techno Fysica BV specialises in solving problems related to the dynamic loading of machinery and installations using several measuring and analysis techniques. In a recent case demonstrating how a combination of good components can go wrong when insufficient attention is paid to the integration aspects of ...
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Oil Pollution Conference Date
With the continuing impact of the Erika and Prestige sinkings still resonating through the European maritime community and beyond, the announcement of the 17th Annual Oil Pollution Conference could not be more timely. The event will be held in London on 15 and 16 March 2004, followed by a practical ...
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NewsVOSTA LMG Launch Vietnam Dredger
A 1,500m 3capacity trailing suction hopper dredger ordered from VOSTA LMG andbeing built at Damen Shipyards Cargo Vessels in Hoogezand, Holland for Vietnams''s Waterway Dredging and Construction Co No1 waslaunched last month.
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'Tricolor' Salvage Suspended
Salvage operations in the English Channel to remove the sunken car carrier Tricolor and its cargo have been suspended due to hostile weather conditions. Based on weather statistics from the past, it could be April or May 2004 before work can resume.
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Euronav Launch Budget AIS
The collision avoidance benefits of AIS will become more financially accessible to the operators of smaller commercial and leisure vessels when Euronav launches its low-cost Ai3000 AIS receiver at the 2004 London International Boat Show . The £ 799 (Inc VAT) NMEA compatible receiver can be linked to current PC ...
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NewsRubber Prop Shaft Bearings for Nuclear Ice Breaker
Murmansk Shipping Company operates the world''s largest nuclear powered river ice breaker. The 1987 built Taymir generates 45,000kW of propulsive power which drives through three water lubricated closed propeller shaft installations. Each shaft has a diameter of 950mm and weighs up to 62 tonnes. The propeller and its hub weigh ...
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Hi-Tec Acquires Bollom
Maidstone UK based Hi-Tec Spray Ltd has grown as a UK force in surface coating technology for the marine industry following its acquisition of Bollom Finishing Equipment . The newly expanded company now has a team of 40 service engineers based at branches in Manchester, Coventry, Bristol, Southampton, Stowmarket, Maidstone ...
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Remote Upgrade to 1000 Ships
ChartCo has achieved a major technical milestone by broadcasting its upgraded user software, oceanMaster , direct to over 1,000 ships at sea. This software upgrade, including integration with existing on board database records, was conducted remotely with no need for on board engineering attendance using ChartCo''s L-band satellite communications broadcast ...
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First ISSC Certificate for Boxship
Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants (MUSC) have had the first Ship Security Plan onboard a container vessel to be verified by the UK''s Maritime and Coastguard Agency . The ISPS compliant security plan was written by London based MUSC to be used on board Zodiac ''s commercial cargo carrier CMACGM ...
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NewsFast Cat Travel to Boat Show
Visitors to the 2004 London Boat Show , taking place next month at the ExCel Exhibition Centre in the Docklands, will be able to travel towards the show from central London along the River Thames on a high speed catamaran.
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NewsSubmarine Sandwich Course for Portsmouth Apprentices
A group of apprentices from Portsmouth based shiprepair specialist Fleet Support Limited (FSL) has played a key role in restoring a World War II midget submarine on display at the HMS Dolphin museum in Gosport.
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Dredgers of the World: Fourth Edition
Oilfield Publications produces a range of similar titles covering vessel types such as tugs, survey vessels and mobile drilling units.
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NewsFirst Timers Flock to ShipRepair & Conversion
First time exhibitors continue to swell the ranks of companies taking part at Ship Repair & Conversion 2003 , the twelfth anniversary of the industry''s premier exhibition and conference, taking place the 26th and 27th of this month at the Grand Hall, Olympia in London.
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NewsEncouraging Signs for Repair Sector in Europe
It has been an encouragingly active Summer and Autumn for many of Europe''s ship repair and conversion facilities and thus a refreshing contrast to the gloomy order situation in much of the newbuilding sector. Big ship work may have grabbed the headlines this Autumn, but specialised small vessel projects have ...
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News'Ghost Ships' Scare Up Government Reversal
With two of the first four so-called ''ghost ships'' towed from America to the UK for scrapping now moored at Hartlepool and the other two mid-Atlantic, uncertainty surrounds their future as the UK Environment Agency has reversed its position and declared its earlier approval of modification to Able UK ''swaste ...
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'Venus' in Green Call to Arms
The Swedish Road Administration operates a fleet of more than 60 ships and is thus the country’ s largest shipping company in terms of number of vessels. The Road Administration has overall responsibility for the environmental impact of road traffic and as part of this, its Vagverket Farjerederiet ferry company ...
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OCS Goes Boom
Oil Control Systems of the Netherlands has received an order from SMIT Salvage for the delivery of 400m of Ro-Boom 1100 Oilboom . The order contains four hydraulic operated reels, each including a 100m oilboom, fitted in special fabricated galvanised frames which can be stowed in planes and/or on deck. ...
